Wu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Stone (shí) Ding Kangxi Stroke Count: 13 Page 831, Entry 44 Sounded in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Same as the character ding. Old Book of Tang (Tangshu), Biography of Kong Kui: When Kui served as the regional governor of Lingnan, there was a tax imposed on foreign ships anchoring at the port, known as the anchoring tax. Kui abolished this practice. Originally written as the character ding.